toolhouses

Updated: May 16, 2025

The conviction seized him that this dull misery of hunger and dirt had settled upon him perpetually there was no use in combating it; and, with an animal-like stoicism, he followed the other away from the road, out of the hollow, to where row upon row of young ornamental trees reached in mathematical perspective to broad sheds, glittering expanses of glass, a huddle of toolhouses, and office.

Joseph Hergesheimer - The Happy End